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course expected to find it in tlie language, and had prepared 

 a list of key-words containing this sound-symbol. Hut I had 

 not been long in North Greenland before I began to realize 

 tliat the sound j there leads merely a parasitic existence. It 

 is to be heard occasionally, but in most words where it is 

 expected, the sound ri is heard instead. I have therefore de- 

 termined to regard it as an irregular sound, and to use ц 

 throughout. When my private notes expressly have ^, however, 

 I retain this symbol. 



The words in my ^-list, then, assume the following forms, 

 where 7i is everywhere substituted for the South Greenlandic g: 

 \(1Щ071о\^ yQi^^^i \а]аг1щ\- /-0^' 



\1)0-71о1щ]'^ T-O'J- \kia7i^uir2q\* ^0'J°'J' 



\t7iHp'a-\'' yO' [щ^'\^ XI ^0' 



[эг//г//(г] »1 XI т-ОЬ' \2Щ1711Г1ау- XI j^Mi-g?) 



Other examples are: 

 \псг1а)1щ\^'^ \asaria"'k4t\^* \atdv ?,07io\^^ [og'ar^t^'a*) '^ 

 [//£//'a</], plur. [nH^-^ät]^"' \uJ4k'^Q.vko7iit\^'^ (^'уМ'О^^г'ас] ^® 



All of these words are in South Greenland pronounced 

 with the fricative g in the place of ^/. Yet there are also 

 plenty of words in South Greenlandic where the sound ti is used, 

 fasa^a-^a] is in South Greenland pronounced [asa^a-ria]. 



Wherever I came in North Greenland I had the same expe- 

 rience. When I asked a Greenlander to repeat the word иа'кс^щ 

 or гд«, he always answered me with [tiirlatinq] [r//«*], accordingly 

 with the nasalized stopped consonant in place of the unnasalized 



' when (in the future)? ^ a kind of toy (cup and ball) ' plate * he 

 is warm ^ he loving me " he pities him ^ he throws it away " his pot 

 " my daughter '" the inner wall of a Greenlandic house " the one (or the 

 tiling) that he went up to ''■* I who own it " lord, master '* I love you 

 '^ to use it ^^ he says to him " bird-gin '■* to fill them '^' worm 

 ^" violin. 



